EMC IP Holding/Dell Assigned Eleven Patents

Managing accelerator pools to perform subportions of portions of workflows
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12204949) developed by Lincourt, Jr.; Robert Anthony, Franklin, MA, Harwood; John S., Boston, MA, White; William Jeffery, Plano, TX, Farley; Douglas L., Round Rock, TX, Fong; Victor, Medford, MA, and MacLellan; Christopher S., Uxbridge, MA, for “method and system for managing accelerator pools to perform subportions of portions of workflows.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing workflows. The method may include obtaining, from a client, by a registration manager associated with accelerator pools, a request to perform a portion of a workflow using accelerators; identifying a minimum quantity and a maximum quantity of accelerators associated with the request; identifying a storage to store data associated with the portion of the workflow; identifying an accelerator pool of the accelerator pools that includes at least the maximum quantity of accelerators; establishing a connection between the client, the storage, and accelerators of the accelerator pool to perform the portion of the workflow; and initiating the performance of the portion of the workflow using the storage, the client, and the accelerators of the accelerator pool.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-04-21 (17/236708).

Method, device, and program product for managing multiple computing tasks based on batch
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12204934) developed by Chen; Tao, Beijing, China, Liu; Bing, Tianjin, China, and Chen; Qi, Beijing, China, for “method, device, and program product for managing multiple computing tasks based on batch.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure relates to a method, a device, and a program product for managing multiple computing tasks on a batch basis. A method includes: identifying a task type of the multiple computing tasks in response to receiving a request to use a computing unit in a computing system to perform the multiple computing tasks; acquiring a scheduling time overhead incurred for scheduling the multiple computing tasks for execution by the computing unit; determining, based on the task type and the scheduling time overhead, a batch size for dividing the multiple computing tasks; and dividing the multiple computing tasks into at least one batch based on the batch size. A corresponding device and a corresponding computer program product are provided. With the example implementations of the present disclosure, the batch size for dividing multiple computing tasks can be dynamically determined, so that the performance of the computing system can meet user demands.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-07-29 (17/388644).

Workload placement based on subgraph similarity
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12204944) developed by Teixeira de Abreu Pinho; Rômulo, Niterói, Brazil, Gottin; Vinicius Michel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Vera Sousa; Eduardo, Niterói, Brazil, for “systems and methods for workload placement based on subgraph similarity.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques described herein relate to systems and methods for workload placement based on subgraph similarity. Such techniques may include obtaining an encoded workload graph based on receiving a workload execution request; using the encoded workload subgraph to obtain encoded graphs representing previous workload executions, encoded subgraphs representing infrastructures on which the workload were executed, resource usage information, and execution metrics; using the encoded infrastructure subgraphs using subgraph similarity to identify candidate infrastructure subgraphs, using an ML model to predict an execution metric for an execution of the workload using the candidate; and selecting a best candidate infrastructure on which to execute the workload based on the predicted execution results.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-10-20 (17/505820).

Data center restoration
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12204923) developed by Shemer; Jehuda, Kfar Saba, Israel, Lotosh; Valerie, Ramat-Gan, Israel, and Sharvit; Erez, Ramat-Gan, Israel, for a “data center restoration.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system can determine to restore a datacenter that comprises a group of virtualized workloads. The system can determine respective associations between respective virtualized workloads and respective datastores. The system can determine to restore a first virtualized workload of the group of virtualized workloads first. The system can restore a first portion of infrastructure that corresponds to the first virtualized workload first among a group of infrastructure. The system can, after restoring the first portion of infrastructure, restore a first portion of data that corresponds to the first virtualized workload first among a group of data. The system can, after restoring the first portion of data, restore a first portion of a virtualization layer that corresponds to the first virtualized workload first among a group of virtualization layers. The system can, after restoring the first portion of the virtualization layer, restore the first virtualized workload.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-10-21 (17/507656).

Asynchronous and synchronous transmit priority mechanism
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12197464) developed by Chen; Xiangping, Sherborn, MA, and Meiri; David, Somerville, MA, for “asynchronous and synchronous transmit priority mechanism.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method is used in managing an asynchronous and synchronous transmit priority mechanism. The method receives a plurality of replication requests in conjunction with a replication process, where the plurality of replication requests comprises at least one of a first replication request or a second replication request. A first storage system that comprises a plurality of storage devices is configured to participate in the replication process with a second storage system that comprises a plurality of storage devices. The method determines an execution order to optimize processing of the plurality of replication requests, where a first replication request execution order that optimizes processing of the at least one first replication request conflicts with optimizing processing of the at least one second replication request.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-05-01 (16/400246).

Storage array data decryption
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12197630) developed by Doddaiah; Ramesh, Westborough, MA, and Alshawabkeh; Malak, Franklin, MA, for a “storage array data decryption.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An aspect of the present disclosure relates to one or more data decryption techniques. In embodiments, an input/output operation (IO) stream including one or more encrypted IOs is received by a storage array. Each encrypted IO is assigned an encryption classification. Further, each encrypted IO is processed based on its assigned encryption classification.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-04-13 (17/228946).

Controlling storage array data transmissions
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12199878) developed by Charles; Peniel, Bangalore, India, Kanjirathinkal; Joseph, Cary, NC, and Crowley; Owen, Cork, Ireland, for “controlling storage array data transmissions.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An aspect of the present disclosure relates to using at least one service-level objective (SLO) to control data communications between two or more devices over a network. In embodiments, a notification is received by a source device. The notification can include status information of at least one of a plurality of communication paths between the source device and a target device. A communications control technique can be performed based on the indicated status. The communications control technique can include prioritizing one or more data packets based on a data payload corresponding to each packet. The technique can also include controlling the transmission of one or more data packets based on each data packet’s priority.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-04-21 (17/236695).

Provide SLA based access to cloud data in backup servers with multi cloud storage
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12192306) developed by Gunda; Kalyan C., Rath; Jagannathdas, Mondal; Santi Gopal, Pk; Arun Vishnu, and Jagarlamudi; Veera Venkata Prasad, Bangalore, India, for a “method to provide sla based access to cloud data in backup servers with multi cloud storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The disclosure provides a system, computer readable medium, and computer-implemented method for managing data access. The method includes obtaining a data access request from a requestor for client data redundantly stored in at least two storage providers that are unknown to the requestor; identifying a service level objective for servicing the data access request; ranking the at least two storage providers based on the service level objective to identify one of the at least two storage providers to service the data access request; and providing the requestor with access to a copy of the client data using the one of the at least two storage providers.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-06-17 (17/350203).

Processing sample data in IoT environment
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12190238) developed by Ni; Jiacheng, Liu; Jinpeng, Chen; Qiang, Shanghai, China, Wang; Zijia, WeiFang, China, and Jia; Zhen, Shanghai, China, for “method, device, and program product for processing sample data in internet of things environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure relates to a method, a device, and a program product for processing sample data in an Internet of Things environment. A method in one embodiment includes: receiving features of the sample data from an encoder deployed in a remote device in the Internet of Things environment; acquiring a category probability corresponding to the sample data based on a classifier deployed in a local device in the Internet of Things environment and the features; and classifying the sample data to a predetermined category in response to determining that the category probability satisfies a first threshold condition. Further, a corresponding device and a corresponding program product are provided. With example implementations of the present disclosure, computing resources of devices in an Internet of Things environment can be fully utilized to process sample data.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-08-16 (17/402803).

Performance tuning computer system in scaling domains based on quantified scalability
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12190125) developed by Raghavan; Rasa, Verona, WI, and Morley; Steve A., Mendon, MA, for a “performance tuning a computer system in scaling domains based on quantified scalability.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for performance tuning a computer system in scaling domains based on quantified scalability. A system includes a processor configured to: calculate an estimate of parallel fraction and speedup characteristic in a first domain D1 and in a second domain D2 for an application, the estimate being calculated using system performance measurements generated from previous processing iterations of one or more workloads of the application using a number, n, of cores in the first domain and a remaining number, N−n, of cores in the second domain to obtain performance values X.sub.D1(n) and X.sub.D2(N−n), wherein N represents a total number of cores; calculate the number of cores for the first domain using a quadratic equation generated from the parallel fraction and performance value in each domain; and execute the application in each domain using the number of cores for each domain.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-02-03 (18/105761).

Automatically determining optimal storage medium based on source data characteristics
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12181976) developed by Brenner; Adam, Murti; Arun, Mission Viejo, CA, Malamut; Mark D., Aliso Viejo, CA, and Lei; Joey C., Irvine,CA, for “automatically determining optimal storage medium based on source data characteristics.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “One example method includes defining object groups by classifying each object in a backup saveset based on respective object types of the objects such that all objects in an object group are the same object type, assigning a different respective storage media type to each of the object groups, storing each object group at a respective storage target, representing each object group with a respective Merkle tree that includes a base hash, and mapping each base hash to the storage target where the object group associated with the Merkle tree that includes the base hash is stored.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-01-07 (17/570875).